Poe: Aggregates diverse frontier models into one conversational interface, but operates primarily as a web/app client rather than a native extension. Merlin AI records 1,382,634 monthly visits with +13.1% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Poe records 5,894,702 monthly visits with +9.1% growth and Freemium pricing.
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
One app to chat with GPT, Claude, Gemini and hundreds of other AI models
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | getmerlin.in | poe.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 1.38M (1,382,634) | 5.89M (5,894,702) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +159.85K (+13.1%) | +491.63K (+9.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (15%) | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China (23.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 695.32K | 4.01M |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| Supported Platforms | Browser Extension | Website |
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
Switch between GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral and Llama class models from a single interface instead of juggling separate subscriptions.
Summarize articles, YouTube videos, PDFs and documents in place, then ask follow-up questions grounded in that content.
Draft and reply to emails in Gmail, compose posts and comments for X and LinkedIn, and repurpose web pages or videos into blogs and articles.
Generate images from prompts using more than 20 image models and multiple aspect ratios for web and social output.
One app to chat with GPT, Claude, Gemini and hundreds of other AI models
Talk to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and many other text, image, video and audio models from a single chat window.
Create your own bots with a prompt and a base model, then share them publicly or keep them private.
Browse thousands of bots made by other users for coding, writing, research, study, roleplay and more.
Your chats, bots and settings stay in sync across web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux clients.
Provides superior reasoning, voice, and coding agents, but lacks Poe's flexibility to switch between multiple distinct third-party model providers.
Provides superior reasoning, voice, and coding agents, but lacks Poe's flexibility to switch between multiple distinct third-party model providers.
Features a massive context window and Google Workspace integration, but lacks Poe's broad multi-model conversational flexibility.
Features a massive context window and Google Workspace integration, but lacks Poe's broad multi-model conversational flexibility.
Offers exceptional coding artifacts and long-form analysis, but lacks Poe's multi-model aggregator interface and diverse bot marketplace.
Offers exceptional coding artifacts and long-form analysis, but lacks Poe's multi-model aggregator interface and diverse bot marketplace.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistAll-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
SpecialistAll-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
Offers a similar browser sidebar experience with multi-model support, but features cleaner tab integration and smoother reading tools.
Offers a similar browser sidebar experience with multi-model support, but features cleaner tab integration and smoother reading tools.
SpecialistIntegrates multi-model chat directly into your browser workflow, but lacks Poe's dedicated standalone aggregator web and mobile application.
SpecialistIntegrates multi-model chat directly into your browser workflow, but lacks Poe's dedicated standalone aggregator web and mobile application.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a self-hosted open-source interface for local models, but requires manual infrastructure setup compared to Poe's hosted service.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a self-hosted open-source interface for local models, but requires manual infrastructure setup compared to Poe's hosted service.
SpecialistIntegrates AI directly into an independent browser environment, whereas Merlin runs as an extension across existing browsers.
SpecialistIntegrates AI directly into an independent browser environment, whereas Merlin runs as an extension across existing browsers.
Offers a clean cross-platform client with local file support, but lacks Poe's vast collection of community-created custom bots.
Offers a clean cross-platform client with local file support, but lacks Poe's vast collection of community-created custom bots.
Combines browser AI chat with advanced web automation and data extraction, though with a steeper learning curve.
